PITTSBURGH — The city of Pittsburgh has settled a lawsuit filed by an abortion protester who claimed a 2005 city ordinance illegally restricted leafleting and free speech by protesters.

Protester Mary K. Brown sued claiming the city's combination of a “buffer zone,” which kept protesters at least 15 feet from clinic entrances, and a “bubble zone,” which kept protesters at least 8 feet from abortion clients, was illegal. A federal appeals court agreed in 2009 and the city has since decided to enforce only the buffer zone around clinic entrances and has been training its police how to enforce that limit.

PITTSBURGH — A teenager has pleaded guilty to a federal charge related to a cross-burning in the yard of a Western Pennsylvania juvenile more than a year ago.Michael Bealonis, 19, of Robinson was one of three males charged in the November 2009 crime in Indiana County. He pleaded guilty Wednesday to interfering with the housing rights of another.Prosecutors said the defendants set a six-foot wooden cross afire in the yard of a family with three children, one of whom was black.Bealonis is to be sentenced May 25.